cool picture, well it would be if ...

[Bergy]

If i had a better camera and was a better photographer..





This is a Strawberry Anemone / Corynactis californica

Its in the middle, and yes it is fuzzy... I have a few more pics and hopefully one of them is better...







I have these strawberry anemones in different areas of my tank.. 'hitch-hikers' must have started somewhere but now, i have a few in that corner and a few under another corner/rock...They dont seem to need/want a lot of light, which is why Im guessing they are hungry enuf to eat this bristle worm...

they are 'sticky' and will latch on well... i have fed them before some silver sides and pellets...That bristle worm is definately a goner..he isnt moving or trying to get out now...

so, if you have a bristle worm problem and want natural remedy/predation try and find some straberry anemones... (heheheh, i dont really think you can find/buy these...)

[Bergy]

http://hmsc.oregonstate.edu/visitor/node/283


here is some info on the strawberry anemone


I really love these if i could get thenm to grow together on a rock... a cluster of these are bitchin lookin

[Bergy]

[psykokid]

lol, i couldnt  tell it was eating a bristle worm until i read the text. Here's what one looks like in focus and not eating a bristle worm:

[RandyFolds]

I really doubt they are Corynactis Californica, as they are a local temperate species (hence the latin name). More likely, it is a species of Caribbean on Indonesian Psuedocorynactis sp.

They are azooanthelate, so they need to be fed.

You can find them for sale on occasion, but are much more common as hitchhikers or trades from other aquarists who got them as hitchhikers.

[OCtrackiepacsg1]

Great photography bergy.

where did you get the guy?

[Bergy]

you have to be kidding???

crappy pics...

and they were hitch hkers.


and yea, lanny is correct, and you told me that before....  psuedocorinactis

Great photography bergy.

where did you get the guy?

[RandyFolds]

I had totally forgotten that we were checking them out before...wonder why?  BTW - that is my first use of a smiley on this forum.

How many of them are you sporting? Maybe you should start feeding the hell out of them so they multiply. You could have the LA Psuedocorynactis market on lockdown. They are awesome looking. I would love to have one.

[Bergy]

i have about 6 of them but only 3 here, and two there and 1 here or there...

I think they move... so sometimes i look for them and htey are gone, but then i will seem them back there at a later date...

I do feed them and hope they kinda multiply or congregate...

They are small so I would need a few dozen or on a rock or frag plug

[OCtrackiepacsg1]

you have to be kidding???

crappy pics...

Great photography bergy.

Note to self: Don't use sarcasm online...

[Bergy]

note to self, laugh at other peoples scarcasm..

[Just_Greg]

you KNEW i'd have a pic, didn't you?




these are absolutely gorgeous, altho we only get the odd one every so often.

[Bergy]

yes, between you and lanny, you are my reference source

[Just_Greg]

these little nems seem to do OK, but ours always show up in really bad places, and eventually get knocked off accidentally.

[pinkorchid]

Interesting!!